It’s a good thing Jim Thibodeau doesn’t believe in bad omens. His initial experience with his fabulous 1956 Ford Thunderbird didn’t go too well. By the time Thibodeau got the car home to Neenah, Wis., back in 1980, he flgured there was nowhere to go but up.
“I was looking for an early Thunderbird — a ’55, ’56 or ’57 — and I had an uncle living in South Carolina and he said, ‘I see a few every once in a while,’” recalled Thibodeau. “And he found one and he gave me a call and the lady said they’d sell it. It was sitting in a shed, and I sent a check and bought it. I fiew down and drove it back in about March. I ran into a snowstorm in Chicago. The wiper blade fiew off the car, the arm was scratching the windshield. I’m just cringing. It was
